Remelluri Rioja Reserva 2018 NO20230719 the plants are then shredded

the plants are then shredded by axe and knife and open-air fermented in pine tanks before being twice-distilled in traditional copper stills

making this a rare find from the 2022 vintage

Racines - the Burgundian team of Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve - farms a parcel of that original planting on a gently north-facing slope of thin shale and chert soils

sweet Pedro Ximenez

Remelluri Rioja Reserva 2018 NO20230719 the plants are then shreddedThe flagship Reserva is the wine the Rodrguez family set out to make when they bought the abandoned Remelluri estate in 1967 a Rioja that could stand alongside any great wine in the world. Built from a blend of estate parcels in the foothills of the Sierra Cantabria, it sees the extended barrel and bottle aging that earns the Reserva designation, but with a fresher, more terroir driven sensibility than old school Rioja. The 2018 vintage was balanced